This Japanese company provide “Packtest” as “Simplified Water Analysis Tool”.
Those tests were used during WaterBlitz UK. The are not free open tools but they are very useful when you think about out “stack” with Seed Bioassays Exotocicology, DIY Spectrometry, Micro Plastics monitoring.
I mean a a combination of field tools and methods, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, in order to move towards autonomy (move towards, because we are far from perfection) and produce our own data.
I’ve been trying for months to establish contact and discussion with EU users of kyoritsu products. No answer.
I’ve been trying to get get a quote for kits
with their online form CONTACT US - KYORITSU CHEMICAL-CHECK Lab.,Corp.. Several emails and no answer.
My emails were in English. I’m asking for help from people around me who have lived in Japan, especially as I’m convinced that I’m doing things that are culturally not accepted in my emails.
One of the returns was:
if the address isn’t written in the right order in Japanese, the letter won’t arrive
There’s a rigid, stubborn side to it (I’m sorry I had nothing to do with it - note from a Japanese person’s discussion), we’re no good at foreign languages and we’re rigid, it’s terrible.
if we don’t understand, we don’t try to understand
So anther one helped me with this writing as email template
ご担当者様
お世話になります。
御社に下記のPackTestのお見積りをお願いしたいと思います：
- Chlorine Dioxide
- Phosphate
- Nitrate
- Ammonium
- Phenol
輸送先は海外・ベルギーになりますが、5個・10個・15個ずつの３パターンのお見積りを御社にお願いできますか？詳細はそれ以降お話しできればと思います。
よろしくお願いいたします。
Now, crossed fingers. 